canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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canafistula | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistola, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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closefisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: hardfisted, tightfisted |
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fist | (noun) a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting) | Synonyms: clenched fist |
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fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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(verb) fight with the fists | - |
fistful | (noun) the quantity that can be held in the hand | Synonyms: handful |
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fisticuffs | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: boxing, pugilism |
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(noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fistfight, slugfest |
fistmele | (noun) about seven inches; the breadth of a fist with the thumb stuck out (used especially in archery to give the correct distance of the string from the bow) | - |
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fistula | (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: sinus |
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(noun) a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse | Synonyms: fistulous withers |
fistular | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistulate, fistulous |
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fistulate | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulous |
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fistulous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula | - |
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(adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulate |
hardfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, tightfisted |
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pacifist | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifistic |
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(noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: disarmer, pacificist |
pacifistic | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifist |
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pacifistically | (adverb) in a pacifistic manner | - |
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tightfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, hardfisted |
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tightfistedness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightness |
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